we would like to address a feedback we received quite often lately: AI Trading Habits

We are aware of the issue that the AI is not agreeing to trades that it has offered before, and the fact that it's then continuously throwing better offers at you without accepting them either.

This turned out to be a more intricate problem than we initially thought since it's not just a functionality bug, but instead, the AI is "consciously" deciding to not trade with other players sometimes.

This is because of a general AI system that is being used to identify the players that the AI is currently directly competing with, e.g. because a player and the AI both have the same building option nearby or because of the current VP situation.

However, this system is independent of trade offers, because trades can also be accepted by other players that the AI is currently not directly competing with.

Therefore the AI sometimes makes and increases trade offers, that it then does not accept itself, because the only player that accepted the offers is a player the AI does not want to trade with due to of the current in-game situation.

So we are currently writing, implementing and testing a new system that will streamline the way the AI evaluates offering trades while taking into account its relation regarding other player’s positions.

Unfortunately, this does take time but we wanted to let you know that we are of course still working on this until it is sustainably fixed.

Due to the great feedback for our first Catan Season, we are very excited to announce a series of competitive Seasons called "Catan - The Emperor’s Quest"!
So starting this December we are looking for the most skilled Catan players Catan Universe has to offer!

In order to win the prestigious Emperor’s Crown, you’ll have to show that you're an extremely versatile Catan player that is able to master all the Catan variants we have and finish every Season in the top 1% to win every Crown necessary to earn the ultimate Crown of the Emperor!

Of course, we will make it worth your while, as every Season is going to have great rewards even if you're not able to finish at the very top.

We will start on December 17th with another Base Game Season to make sure everyone has a chance to participate but we will follow it up with the first Seafarer Season in spring 2019.

Take a first look at our exclusive orient game set.
You will be able to win the Orient game pieces, orient table and orient resource-set, including newly designed tiles for Catan Universe in the upcoming Season.

Our top players will additionally receive a crown for their mastery in the Basegame.

You can already check out the Orient set in your player profile today.

To enable our community to grow and get connected to each other, we decided to do a little experiment;)
Catan Universe will provide an official Discord server for you to join, meet fellow Catanians, talk about Catan and search for likeminded players to play with.

Like here in the forums and any other channel provided by us adhering to our Code of Conduct [Link] is a must and users that don't follow those rules will be removed from the service accordingly.
As stated before: This is an experiment. If this proves to be a useful tool for members of the community to connect to each other we are planning to offer the Discord server over a long period of time.
We are eagerly awaiting your feedback

Please also note:

The Discord server will be a place for you to talk to each other as a community.It will not be a support platform! For support questions, please use the forums or email us via support@catanuniverse.com

Discord is a multiplatform communication tool. Therefore it is available on all Platforms we offer Catan Universe on. (Windows Client, Web Client, Android and iOS App)
It´s easy to pick up and it´s free to use!
You can learn more about Discord here:https://discordapp.com/

We want to give our iOS users a quick update on the progress in regards to fixing the issue on iOs devices with 1 GB of RAM.

In the course of the last week, we made good progress in fixing the issue. Unfortunately, we are not able to release an update yet.

The reason for the App closing (on its own) on older iOS devices is that the shared memory on these devices isn´t large enough. Therefore the App gets closed by the operating system.

We are currently reworking some of our systems and how they allocate memory. As you can imagine we have to be very careful during this process since making changes to these systems can cause unwanted side effects very easily.

We want to thank our community for giving us vital feedback on this issue, helping us identify it.

We will let you know once we are confident when we will be able to release a stable patch.